E. Jean Carroll has been many things: a journalist, an advice columnist, a raconteur, a television personality and, most recently, the woman who sued President Trump twice — and won.

So it was not a surprise when the documentarian Ivy Meeropol came asking to make a film about her life and her lawsuits, in which juries found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse. The response Meeropol received from the colorful octogenarian was also not surprising: She’d rather eat her shoe.

“I’m an old, old lady,” Carroll said in a video interview. “I live in a hovel on a mountain. Nobody in the world is going to be interested in old E. Jean. It just didn’t make sense to me.”

It made perfect sense to Meeropol, who had spent her career tracking the lives and deaths of her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Jewish American couple convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. She made an “Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter’s Story” in 2004 and a 2019 film on Roy Cohn, a prosecutor in her grandparents’ case and a consigliere to Trump. Carroll’s story, in some ways, would complete a trilogy.

Once Carroll saw Meeropol’s “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” she changed her mind. “I thought, Ivy Meeropol gets the evil of Donald Trump,” she said.

The two are now ready to share their story. “Ask E. Jean” will debut at the Telluride Film Festival, which takes place in a Colorado box canyon over Labor Day weekend and is often seen as an early bellwether of the Oscar race.